R&D News

“I’m offering to come to Brussels and demonstrate on my (or your) laptop the value of text and data mining for open science,” says Peter Murray-Rust of Cambridge University, as he presses the EU to go further on copyright reform

Tekes reinforces its research and development funding by introducing new funding services for growth companies.

The EU Commission is canvassing views on whether the process of assessing research projects should be more open to public eyes

Innovation and research are distinct activities. If Europe is to extract greater value from its science we need an independent European Innovation Council, with a different brief from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and separate from the European Research Council

The four-year Gliomark project aims to develop and commercialise a novel diagnostic for brain cancer. It has been funded by the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument

The EU Research Commissioner may have correctly identified the reasons for Europe’s failure to commercialise its science, but setting up a new agency that separates innovation from research is not the answer, says Estonian MEP Kaja Kallas

The Horizon 2020 FORCE project aims to address a fundamental need in planning and monitoring of cancer treatment by measuring the forces active in cancer.

EU Digital Commissioner Gunther Oettinger signs agreement with Brazil’s Minister of Communications André Figueiredo on next-generation 5G wireless development

5G wireless communications will be the lifeblood of all major industries in less than five years, but the EU needs to fill in gaps in legislation and standards to prepare for pan-European deployment. A plan for 5G roll-out will be published by the end of 2016